Topics in Modern Culture
T02.0201.089
Credits: 4
Professor(s): T. Tomlinson
Syllabus: Download
The sophomore seminars in LSP constitute a very different experience from that of the freshman year courses. While the
freshman year courses encourage students to comprehend the possibilities for broad interdisciplinary understandings, the
sophomore seminars emphasize writing-intensive research on specific topics as well as seminar activities such as student
presentations, student-moderated discussions, and peer feedback. In each semester of the sophmore year, students take one
Topics seminar in Modern Culture, and one Topics seminar in Modern Society.
Topics in Modern Culture: Recent Offerings
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- World War II: Film, Art, Music and Literature
- American Outlaw: Walt Whitman’s Radical Cultural Legacy
- The Making of the Modern Body: Sex, Beauty, and Medical Culture
- Myth and Legend in Modern Culture
- Rebels with Causes: Sex and Gender Wars of the 20th Century
- Addicted: Desire, Compulsion, and Pathology in Fiction and Film
- Post-Traumatic Century: The Culture of Disaster
- Culture, Identity and Immigration
- Divas and Dancers: Opera and Musical Theatre, Ballet and Modern Dance in Performance
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